I’m thinking of choosing Debian instead. I’m a student, low on budget, and wanna play with linux and laptops, and I think Arch or Cachy OS need updates or distro upgrades(?) weekly or something?

Solved: up to date Arch can last for 2 decades on my cheap laptop, and use Flatpak for older versions of software.

  • NichtElias@sh.itjust.works
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    1 day ago

    That won’t really be a problem. If you have old/slow hardware, I’d just recommend a lightweight DE and you shouldn’t really have any performance issues crop up in the future.

    And yes it’s best to update rolling release distros frequently. I update every day and with my internet (150Mbit/s) it takes like 1-2 minutes. Don’t worry if you’re away from your computer for a while though, weekly updates should actually be enough and it’s no problem if you’re away for a few weeks usually.